Whitley Lodge First School

About Whitley Lodge First School

Whitley Lodge First School sits within North Tyneside, a local authority that contains 53 primary schools, five of which hold an Outstanding rating from Ofsted. The school itself is rated Good, a grade it has maintained across its two most recent inspections. Among its local peers, the top-ranked schools in the area are Cullercoats Primary School and New York Primary School, both with a ranking score of 82, followed closely by St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats on 80. For families prioritising an Outstanding rating, the nearest such school is Coquet Park First School, just 0.7 kilometres away. Whitley Lodge is a state-funded, mixed primary school for children aged three to nine, with a nursery provision on site. It is led by headteacher Jennifer Palmer and has no religious character. The school is notably oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, it received 90 applications for 36 places, with 35 of those being first-preference applications, resulting in an oversubscription ratio of 2.5 applicants per place.

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